A Quick Earth Science Practice Quiz Questions!

1. Low ridges of sand that are parallel to the coast, are characteristic of depositional coasts and, typically, are separated from land by water or a lagoon are known as_______________________.

Spits

Barrier islands

Badmouth bars

Beaches

2. The boundary between two air masses is a

Hurricane

Front

Tornado

Anticyclone

3. ___________ is related to the average kinetic energy of a material's atoms or molecules

Heat

Conduction

Temperature

Convection

4. Ozone depletion in the atmosphere has been caused by the use of __________________________.

Carbon dioxide

Methane

Chlorofluorocarbons

Oxygen

5. The Big Bang happened about _____________

2.3 billion years ago

8.5 billion years ago

13.7 billion years ago

11.8 billion years ago

6. The part of a meteoroid that actually strikes the Earth's surface is a _______________.

Tektite

Meteorite

Moldavite

Meteor

7. The tendency for heavenly bodies to travel in a straight line is _______________.

Gravity

Inertia

Precession

Revolution

8. Venus has a _________________ atmosphere.

Hot and dense

Cold and dense

Cold and thin

Hot and thin

9. A group of stars names for mythical characters is a

Cluster

Stellar orbiting group

Constellation

Galaxy

10. Our sun resides in the _________ galaxy

M82

Milky way

Andromeda

M54

11. Atmospheric cells in the Southern Hemisphere are diverted to the ____________ due to the Coriolis effect

Right

Clockwise

Left

South

12. A Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (H-R Diagram) is a plot of ________.

Size vs brightness

Color vs size

Brightness vs temperature

Temperature vs color

13. ______________ proposed the Laws of Planetary Motion.

Brahe

Kepler

Galileo

Newton

14. The intensity of hurricane is measured on the

Moment magnitude scale

Saffic-simpson scale

Enhanced Fujita scale

Culip scale

15. In the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases ___________________.

Block infrared radiation and prevent heat from entering our atmosphere

Prevent infrared radiation

Reflect infrared radiation out into space

Absorb infrared radiation and trap heat in our atmosphere

16. Hurricanes form within __________ air mass

One humid

Two dry

Two humid

One dry

17. The cooling of the equatorial Pacific Ocean is characteristic of ____________.

El nino

Upwelling

La nina

Maritime pacific

18. The subtropical high is located at approximately _______________ degrees latitude

0

60

45

30

19. Clouds that are globular and look like cotton balls with a flat base are ____________ clouds

Cirrus

Stratus

Cirrostratus

Cumulus

20. Look at the photograph of the beach below. What is the man made features circled in red?

Sea wall

Groin

Jetty

Breakwater

21. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are know as the ____________________ planets.

Dwarf

Solar

Terrestrial

Jovian

22. An Astronomical Unit is equal to the distance between the Earth and the Sun or approximately _________________.

93 million miles

150 billion miles

127 million miles

2 billion miles

23. This planet is known as the sideways planet

Neptune

Mercury

Saturn

Uranus

24. The ______________________ is the part of the continental margin that contains the submerged edge of the continent

Continental shelf

Continental rise

Shelf break

Continental slope

25. The smallest ocean basin on earth is the ____________________.

Pacific ocean

Arctic ocean

Indian ocean

Atlantic Ocean

26. The average salinity of seawater is __________ parts per thousand (ppt)

32

38

40

35

27. ____________________ is credited with proposing the Law of Universal Gravitation.

Kepler

Newton

Galileo

Brahe

28. Most primary producers in the ocean are _______________

Zooplankton

Benthic creatures

Phytoplankton

Living on coral reefs

29. In the diagram below, name the feature circled in red

Longshore Current

Badmouth bar

Beach

Spit

30. The ________________is the effect of the position that an object appears to differ when viewed from different perspectives.

Nebular hypothesis

Heliocentric view

Parallax

Eclipse

31. The earth is closer to the sun, at about 91.5 million miles at _______________

Aphelion

Ecliptic plane

Opposition

Perihelion

32. The first person credited with observing heavenly bodies using a telescope was

Kepler

Brahe

Copernicus

Gallileo

33. Our Sun is approximately ______________________, or halfway through its projected life cycle.

5 billion years old

10 billion years old

2.5 million years old

8 billion years old

34. The two major components of air are ______________________

Carbon dioxide and oxygen

Nitrogen and oxygen

Nitrogen and carbon dioxide

Oxygen and argon

35. The enhanced fujity intensity scale is a measure of the damage caused by a

Hurricane

Typhoon

Nor'easter

Tornado

36. The ______________ is where the density of seawater is increasing rapidly with depth

Pycnocline

Halocline

Mesocline

Thermocline

37. The ratio of the air's actual water-vapor content to the amount of water vapor required for saturation at the temperature (and pressure) is ___________________

Dew point

Relative humidity

Vapor pressure

Adiabatic cooling

38. An extratropical cyclone travels from west to east across North American and is also known as a ______________

Hurricane

Nor'easter

Tornado

Typhoon

39. Most photosynthesis in the ocean water column is achieved in the _________________ zone

Benthic

Photic

Euphotic

Photic

40. Two high tides and two low tides per day is considered a ________________ tide

Semi-diurnal

Mixed

Diurnal

Ebb

41. Due to ocean acidification, the pH of the ocean decreases due to the input of dissolved ________________ causing calcifying marine organisms to have thinner shells.

Nitrogen

Bicarbonate

Carbon dioxide

Oxygen

42. The wind is controlled by all of the following except

Latitude

Friction

Coriolis effect

Pressure gradient force

43. The model that we use today to describe the motion of the heavenly bodies:

States that a sequence of celestial spheres surrounds earth

Is the heliocentric model

Is the geocentric model

States that the earth reverses direction in its orbit

44. The warm and fast western boundary current of the North Atlantic Gyre is known as the ____________.

Gulf stream

Canary current

North equatorial current

North Atlantic current

45. The alignment of the moon, sun and the earth at spring tide is characteristic of all the following except __________

New moon, full moon phases

Highest of high tides

Opposing solar and lunar bulges

Lowest of low tides

46. The most vast, flat areas on earth are the ___________________

Continental margins

Mid-ocean ridges

Continental rise

Abyssal plains

47. Areas of ___________ near coasts are where cool, nutrient - rich water is pushed to the surface causing areas of great biological productivity.

Downwelling

Aridity

Upwelling

Deep ocean circulation

48. All animals capable of swimming and moving about under their own propulsion are ________________

Nekton

Plankton

Benthos

Phytoplankton

49. Submarine canyons are thought to be carved out or created by

Thermohaline currents

Surface currents

Turbidity currents

Coriolis effect

50. The rings of Saturn are believed to be composed of _________________

An auroral display of ionized gasses

Small particles of dust, rock and ice

The remnants of a hurricane-like storm that was first recorded by galileo

Particles of pure ice

51. The chicks of the layman albatross are most threatened by ________________ during nesting season on midway atoll.

Sea level rise

Plastic ingestion

Loss of habitat

Abandonment

52. Ocean floor sediment that originates from land is classified by source as _________________.

Cosmogenous

Biogenous

Terrigenous

Hydrogenous

53. The lowermost layer of the atmosphere where we live is the ________________

Stratosphere

Mesophere

Thermosphere

Troposphere

54. The fraction of the total radiation that is reflected by a surface is called

Albedo

Diffusion

Selective absorbers

Scattering

55. The expression of the day to day atmospheric conditions of a particular place is

Koppen classification

Weather

Atmospheric classification

Climate

56. Planets sometimes show a reverse or ________________ with respect to the stars when observed in the night sky.

Retrospect

Returning

Repeating

Retrograde

57. A ________________ is a unique community that has many rare species and is based on the decomposition of the body of a marine organism that has come to rest on the sea floor.

Methane seep

Whale fall

Hydrothermal vent community

Coral reef

58. The largest volcano in the solar system is

Mauna loa

Yellowstone

Lo

Olympus mons

59. Clouds of vertical development that are towering and produce thunderstorms are

Cumulonimbus

Stratocumulus

Nimbostratus

Cirrocumulus

60. The deposit of ice crystals formed by the freezing of supercooled fog or cloud droplets on objects whose surface temperature is below freezing is

Rime

Snow

Sleet

Rain

A Quick Earth Science Practice Quiz Questions!

1. Low ridges of sand that are parallel to the coast, are characteristic of depositional coasts and, typically, are separated from land by water or a lagoon are known as_______________________.

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. The boundary between two air masses is a

3. ___________ is related to the average kinetic energy of a material's atoms or molecules

4. Ozone depletion in the atmosphere has been caused by the use of __________________________.

5. The Big Bang happened about _____________

6. The part of a meteoroid that actually strikes the Earth's surface is a _______________.

7. The tendency for heavenly bodies to travel in a straight line is _______________.

8. Venus has a _________________ atmosphere.

9. A group of stars names for mythical characters is a

10. Our sun resides in the _________ galaxy

11. Atmospheric cells in the Southern Hemisphere are diverted to the ____________ due to the Coriolis effect

12. A Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (H-R Diagram) is a plot of ________.

13. ______________ proposed the Laws of Planetary Motion.

14. The intensity of hurricane is measured on the

15. In the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases ___________________.

16. Hurricanes form within __________ air mass

17. The cooling of the equatorial Pacific Ocean is characteristic of ____________.

18. The subtropical high is located at approximately _______________ degrees latitude

19. Clouds that are globular and look like cotton balls with a flat base are ____________ clouds

20. Look at the photograph of the beach below. What is the man made features circled in red?

21. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are know as the ____________________ planets.

22. An Astronomical Unit is equal to the distance between the Earth and the Sun or approximately _________________.

23. This planet is known as the sideways planet

24. The ______________________ is the part of the continental margin that contains the submerged edge of the continent

25. The smallest ocean basin on earth is the ____________________.

26. The average salinity of seawater is __________ parts per thousand (ppt)

27. ____________________ is credited with proposing the Law of Universal Gravitation.

28. Most primary producers in the ocean are _______________

29. In the diagram below, name the feature circled in red

30. The ________________is the effect of the position that an object appears to differ when viewed from different perspectives.

31. The earth is closer to the sun, at about 91.5 million miles at _______________

32. The first person credited with observing heavenly bodies using a telescope was

33. Our Sun is approximately ______________________, or halfway through its projected life cycle.

34. The two major components of air are ______________________

35. The enhanced fujity intensity scale is a measure of the damage caused by a

36. The ______________ is where the density of seawater is increasing rapidly with depth

37. The ratio of the air's actual water-vapor content to the amount of water vapor required for saturation at the temperature (and pressure) is ___________________

38. An extratropical cyclone travels from west to east across North American and is also known as a ______________

39. Most photosynthesis in the ocean water column is achieved in the _________________ zone

40. Two high tides and two low tides per day is considered a ________________ tide

41. Due to ocean acidification, the pH of the ocean decreases due to the input of dissolved ________________ causing calcifying marine organisms to have thinner shells.

42. The wind is controlled by all of the following except

43. The model that we use today to describe the motion of the heavenly bodies:

44. The warm and fast western boundary current of the North Atlantic Gyre is known as the ____________.

45. The alignment of the moon, sun and the earth at spring tide is characteristic of all the following except __________

46. The most vast, flat areas on earth are the ___________________

47. Areas of ___________ near coasts are where cool, nutrient - rich water is pushed to the surface causing areas of great biological productivity.

48. All animals capable of swimming and moving about under their own propulsion are ________________

49. Submarine canyons are thought to be carved out or created by

50. The rings of Saturn are believed to be composed of _________________

51. The chicks of the layman albatross are most threatened by ________________ during nesting season on midway atoll.

52. Ocean floor sediment that originates from land is classified by source as _________________.

53. The lowermost layer of the atmosphere where we live is the ________________

54. The fraction of the total radiation that is reflected by a surface is called

55. The expression of the day to day atmospheric conditions of a particular place is

56. Planets sometimes show a reverse or ________________ with respect to the stars when observed in the night sky.

57. A ________________ is a unique community that has many rare species and is based on the decomposition of the body of a marine organism that has come to rest on the sea floor.

58. The largest volcano in the solar system is

59. Clouds of vertical development that are towering and produce thunderstorms are

60. The deposit of ice crystals formed by the freezing of supercooled fog or cloud droplets on objects whose surface temperature is below freezing is